{"product_id":"the-ambedkar-nietzsche-provocations-9788198697080","title":"The Ambedkar-Nietzsche Provocations","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kawade Ankit\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Navayana\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eHow did the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eManusmriti\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e bind Nietzsche and Ambedkar in a tangle? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the late 1880s, Friedrich Nietzsche, the German philosopher and the greatest egalitarian thinker of inequality, termed Christianity a “Chandala religion”. In the 1940s, B.R. Ambedkar, the champion of civil rights in India and an unequalled thinker of equality, called Hinduism “the gospel of the superman”. The two world-historical figures became entangled in a unique interchange of terminology. What was the “Chandala”—a generic name that refers to the Untouchables of caste society—doing in Nietzsche’s writings? What was the “superman”—Nietzsche’s coinage for a human who exists beyond good and evil—doing in the writings of Ambedkar? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Ambedkar–Nietzsche Provocations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Ankit Kawade tells the story of the multiple and conflicting interpretations and misinterpretations that connect these two thinkers in a historical knot. At the center of this tangle is the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eManusmriti\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the ancient Brahmanic code that devised forbidding rules and sanctioned the most heinous forms of caste and gender oppression. This is the first book-length study of the provocative similarities and irreconcilable differences between Ambedkar and Nietzsche. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Misc","offer_id":47560651997335,"sku":"9788198697080","price":325.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9788198697080.webp?v=1774523066","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-ambedkar-nietzsche-provocations-9788198697080","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}